Sen. Ron Johnson Claims “The FBI Set Me Up” [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) had a raucous audience laughing during a campaign debate Thursday when he complained he had been “set up” by the FBI. Johnson was responding to an attack by his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, that the senator was once warned by the FBI that the Kremlin was trying to turn him into a “Russian asset.”

Johnson fired back at Barnes’ “wild charge.” His claim that the “FBI set me up with a corrupt briefing and then leaked that to smear me” brought laughter from the debate audience. Johnson accused the FBI of being tainted by corruption, which he said he has been “trying to uncover and expose” (a point met with more audience laughter).

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The #WISen debate audience audibly laughs when Sen. Ron Johnson (R) alleges the FBI “set me up with a corrupt briefing and then leaked that to smear me.” pic.twitter.com/I5YYUATNG9

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